Dave-Yost@fortune.UUCP (06/20/83)
This was supposed to be posted before by the USENIX people, but I never saw it, so here it is again, with a slight change at the end: Fortune has now decided to bankroll the whole thing! In January, USENIX convened in San Diego, near the first OMNIMAX theatre in the world, and we were fortunate to be able to attend a special screening. In July, USENIX will convene in Toronto, near the first IMAX theatre in the world. Our destiny is clear. There shall come to pass THE IMAX MOVIE MARATHON or UNIX(TM) MEETS IMAX(R) a special screening of several IMAX films at the Cinesphere (an Imax theatre) in Ontario Place (a theme park owned by the province of Ontario on Lake Ontario near downtown Toronto). Imax is a high resolution motion picture system projected onto a very large rectangular screen (60x80 feet at the Cinesphere) backed by high fidelity six channel sound. Since the introduction of IMAX in 1970, many films have been made which exploit the medium, including the well-known film "To Fly", which we will screen if possible. (OMNIMAX, the sister process to IMAX, is projected onto the inside of a hemispherical screen, while IMAX is projected onto a more traditional flat screen in front of the audience.) The show will be at 10 PM on Thursday, July 14. For the benefit of those who only want to stay for a couple of hours, we will try to play the most popular films at the beginning of the show. For the diehard fans, and there are many of us, the show will continue until 3 AM. Fortune Systems Corporation is sponsoring this event. Free Tickets will be available at the Fortune booth in the vendor exhibits. The Cinesphere seats 800 people. * IMAX is a trademark of IMAX Corporation. * UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories. Dave Yost, Fortune Systems